Fruit and Vegetable Gardening

Run, Rabbit, Run

Someone must have put a package of Viagra in the briar patch. Bunnies are everywhere this year. Talking about the Easte...

33 comments posted 17yrs

posted by HereIAm

33 comments posted 17yrs posted by HereIAm

Catapillars on Apple and Pear Trees

Hi I live in a small village in Soria, Northern Spain and recently inherited an old allotment/orchard with some old app...

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posted by Soria.Spain.497e9c6

3 comments posted 17yrs posted by Soria.Spain.497e9c6

Potato bugs taking over

I'm having a lot more trouble than usual this year with potato bugs. They showed up earlier than usual, and even though...

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posted by Nyssa

2 comments posted 17yrs posted by Nyssa

tomatoe plant newbie

Ive recently been given some tomatoe plants from a friend and they are growing in a grow bag,ive never grown tomatoes b...

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posted by chriz1.495ef86

1 comments posted 17yrs posted by chriz1.495ef86

What am I doing wrong with my carrots?

Two years ago, I tried planting carrots in one of my raised beds. Most of them didn't sprout, and those that sprouted d...

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posted by bbb_bus_complaints

7 comments posted 17yrs posted by bbb_bus_complaints

Planting boxes for flowers

I have decided to make some raised planting boxes rather than go into the earth, which here is a combination of sand du...

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posted by oldfart

2 comments posted 17yrs posted by oldfart

New Compost Tea Recipe/Trial

Went to BiggerTown yesterday and had to stop at Lowe's for some plumbing stuff and picked up a big bag of bone meal and...

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posted by Charlie

12 comments posted 17yrs posted by Charlie

Foliage

I have always trimmed off the leaves of garden plants that touch the ground. I thought that the cleaner the garden the...

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posted by mjciccarel

2 comments posted 17yrs posted by mjciccarel

Planting potatoes

Hi; About a month ago, or so, I planted a bunch of seed potatoes that I had gotten from Johnny's and Burpee. When I pla...

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posted by pheisner

9 comments posted 17yrs posted by pheisner

More Reasons to Grow Yer Own...or...Maybe It's Too Late

Here's another fun article for "us people"....I'm beginning to think we are just plain old effed no matter what we do.....

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posted by Charlie

8 comments posted 17yrs posted by Charlie

New Garden Swap Shop!

Hello fellow gardeners! Just a quick post to let you know of a new group I have started. It's called the Garden Swap Sh...

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posted by livingdeadgirl2582

0 comments posted 17yrs posted by livingdeadgirl2582

From our Dr. Joe and the Technicolor Dream Coatings Dept.

http://www.treehugger.com/files/2009/05/epa-dow-michigan.phpEPA Vows to Clean Up Michigan Dow Site For the rest of "you...

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posted by me

35 comments posted 17yrs posted by me

cucumber crash

Cucumber plants are several inches high but on of them the stem shrunk and withered from ground level up to about an in...

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posted by jeff_thies

10 comments posted 17yrs posted by jeff_thies

Nothing like enjoying the fruits of your labor...

Had 2 strawberries so far with quite a few more turning red which tasted so much sweeter than storebought, and some let...

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posted by wandhart

4 comments posted 17yrs posted by wandhart

Dr. Schwarcz replies

In response to all the chatter about Dr. Scharcz being on the payroll of the chemical companies, as well as his office,...

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posted by sherwindu

41 comments posted 17yrs posted by sherwindu